Postmodern science fiction and temporal imagination
Are we living in a post-temporal age? Has history come to an end? This book argues against the widespread perception of postmodern narrativity as atemporal and ahistorical, claiming that postmodernity is characterized by an explosion of heterogeneous narrative "timeshapes" or chronotopes....
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Continuum
2010.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Continuum literary studies. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b35551847*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Time enough for world
- Time machines: H.G. Wells and the invention of postmodernity
- Strangled by the time loop: paradoxes of determinism
- 'My name is might-have-been': contingency, counterfactuals and moral choice
- Everyday apocalypse: the ethics and aesthetics of the end of time
- Conclusion: Beyond millennium.
